Han Kang is officially a "I would read your grocery list" author. Which is very different from being a 5 star author, and I will attempt to explain:

Greek lessons follows two characters who are disconnected from the world. One is losing his ability to see, and the other one seems to have lost her ability to speak. The former teaches ancient greek to the latter, and the book waxes poetics about ancient greek - on the voice between passive and active, on the complexity of the suffixes, on the difficulty of translation. 

I'm enough of an etymology and grammar nerd to have thoroughly enjoyed those portions, but I especially enjoyed them when they were coupled with characters so deeply drowning in their own loneliness. This book is so bleak, and every sentence is oversaturated with melancholy, to the point where it can become too much. I put the book down for days at a time, and I don't see myself giving it a high rating. But I'm glad that I have a paperback of this, which was a pleasure to annotate.

Recommended if you're into "not plot just vibes" melancholic litfic, enjoy theorizing about the mechanics of language and what they mean for connection and communication, and want to be haunted by a text that you're not sure if you actually enjoyed. 3.75 rounded up.